I've seen the clips of those and in fact I have some of them on my computer (I downloaded them because I teach ESL and the ones like "interjections" are good). I probably don't have that one though.

In the movie, they're just dancing in that scene. It sounded to me like a joke, something like, "There aren't any women to dance with, but you're not bad for a jailbird."

If anything, it is an invitation to dance, or possibly for sex, but it doesn't mean it is going to be forced.

doesn't mean it's forced. A lot of the sex that happens in prison is consensual. Probably most of it, in fact.

and I never really knew the lyrics. However, I would think that a reference to prison rape in that day and age would have been pretty taboo. Just my opinion.

taboo subjects were referenced back in those days, in songs and other places.


"Whoopee Blues", 1932

"You'se a Viper" - 1936

"A to Z Blues" - 1956

"Butcher Pete" - 1950

I mean, John Denver talked about sitting around a campfire in Colorado and getting hi.

And don't get me started on Gordon Lightfoot and his stalking of a girl in "If You Could Read My Mind."

Oh. . .Harry Chapin isn't innocent too. "They Call Her Easy," "Why Do Little Girls," and he advocates underage drinking and having his kid mingle with music playing strangers in "There Only Was One Choice."

I'm being snarky, but yes. . .you are overthinking this big time!!!

Actually is pretty creepy even without reading into it.

Different times.

Many Cole Porter tunes have some disturbing elements to them.

Bryant

confirmation if you Google it. I've heard songwriter friends mention it, but it wasn't something that was really publicly discussed for years after the song came out.

Looks to me like those guys are having some fun now....

The guard seems to have a problem.

"blowin' on the slide trombone" does make it clear waht's going on.

BTW, lyrics from back then, especially blues, were X-rated as often as not-- it's just that the censors weren't all that bright.

(And didn't spend much time in Harlem)

If I walk up to a woman at Target and say,

"You're the cutest Target customer I ever did see,
I sure would be delighted with your company,
Come on and go see a movie with me."

It surely isn't forcing her to go see a movie, it is a casual invitation.

actually thought about that side of it, but no...I don't believe it implies prison rape, mostly for the reasons others have given for their own opinions that it's not prison rape.

Just an invitation to dance. Or, if people really want to insert sex into the mix, consensual sex, at the very worst.

Definitely some sexual innuendo there.

"Dirty Dancing" is just a very, very obvious example, but you'll find it throughout popular culture. Dancing is often used a substitute for sex, or as a form of ritualized foreplay.

So what when Audrey Hepburn sings that "I could have danced all night," you know that she's just getting her freak on.